Rollin Thunder

Just sold my Ashdown mag 300 and 410 cab. taken me a whole year to sell. luckily a local lad had an old amp fail on him so needed an amd an cab quickly for gig. got a fair price in the end (sort of) but half the original asking price from 12 months ago. lovely amp the 300 combo great sound and when added to the 410 awesome tone and power, but at just shy of 30kg (combo alone) its way too heavy for practical use and its a big award size as well with only a plastic carry handle on top, now i am a big strong lad (ex RL prop forward) and even in my lesser current state of fitness, so can see how an elder statesmen or skinny emo/indie type kid would not touch it with a barge pole. Replaced with a Peavey 112 max comb, which is still on the heavy side compared to some super lightweight combos but at 18kg with 200w its much more easy to move about.

I Was saving for a Darkglass vintage ultra, but not now, was hoping this would do a job, but got much much more than i expected. the sound quality is amazing really natural organic warm analogue sound. i'd go for it really good value.

Just purchased one of these at the weekend, very impressed. It is two different distortion channels, Hot tubes and Crayon but its more like l 4 pedals in one. great smooth drive on hot tube all the way up to 12 o clock and no loss of low end at all, not even touched the blend nob. up to 2pm and still only some eq to boost the bass a bit. best tube simulation i have ever played really good organic sound. Crayon is a nice smooth range of overdrive and again no blend needed much up to 12pm. gets a bit fizzy on loss a bit of low end on higher gain settings but not had to go beyond 50/50 mix as yet. Bang them both on at once and the hot tube drives the crayon. this is when things get a bit crazy and i did need some blend, but again on down to 50/50 at pretty harsh settings. Either side can be used as a clean boost full blend and 8-9pm gain. or gain all the way down completely. If it had a mids control as well as the bass and treble would also make a great pre amp. this certainly looks like my always on pedal from now on instead of my MXR M80 At just under£110 cannot recommend this enough, everything from mild boost mild tubey /grit to full on distortion and all the controls for flexibility you need.

Sarcy, With regards def leppard, Rick Savage plays bass by the way Rick Allen drums. Most of Hysteria album was bass samples and sequencers, I have tried to play gods of war bass line, and can play it pretty well, but never going to get it right as it's a synth bass and absolute no string noise what so ever, still a great bass line. Pretty much all other def leppard albums all bass is real. And certainly is live. love kiss but yeah pretty much apart from early stuff don't reckon too much bass in studio is Gene Simmons.

I fancy a seymour duncan, too, but for under £100 i had a electro harmonix bass preacher new there about £80 pick em up second hand for £40-50 and very good value. wish i had kept it but bought a Zoom and as other have said some good ones on that.

Just got a brand new Pigtronix and first thoughts where its awfull, totally squashed and strangled all life out of the bass. put it back in box to send back. then i read instructions (doh) turns out i was using it all wrong, firstly plugged it into 9v rather than 18v (double doh) it will work at 9v but not properly, then i realised this is the first compressor that actually does what a compressor is meant to do and was not using it for what i want. now i get it and after a bit of playing around got exactly what i wanted from it. Set the volume to match at unity with amp, had compression set at about 10 o clock, sustain at 8 o clock. And bingo, got a rounder more defined sound a little cleaner volume boost and slightly thicker warmer sound without loss if tone and more note definition its only subtle but noticeable. Had to increase compression to around 11-12 when using more heavy Fuzz. Finally got what i want and finally get it. Think most of the other ones i have had are not trully compressors. This actually does what a compressor is meant to do.